Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 14
"No one has sung the deeds of my life; they are dead and forgotten.
Who acts: deeds · What happens: sing, be, forget · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deeds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sung | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sung | aux |
| 5 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deeds | det |
| 7 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sung | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deeds | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 dead | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dead | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dead | cop |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sung | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forgotten | cc |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dead | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no one | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary deed=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | deeds = deed | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | participle | deeds = deed not said here | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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